Awards & Winners

1968 Lasker Award

Check winners and nominations of 1968 Lasker Award. Check awards winners of 1968 Lasker Award. (Click on the Award name to show winners and nominees)

Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research

William F. Windle

(For his basic discoveries in the field of developmental biology.)
Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research

Har Gobind Khorana, Marshall Warren Nirenberg

(For their contributions toward deciphering the genetic code.)
Mary Woodard Lasker Award for Public Service

J. Lister Hill

(For his leadership in guiding to passage over 80 major pieces of health legislation, which together represent an historic and abiding commitment by the national government to the health of all of our people.)
Lasker-DeBakey Clinical Medical Research Award

John Heysham Gibbon

(For designing and developing the heart-lung machine.)